[Wikipedia-l] on a lighter note: lists

[Ray Saintonge]

tarquin wrote:

> A while back we agreed that most chronological lists should go 
> forward, from past to present reading down. (prizes, incumbents, lists 
> of works, and chronologies themselves)
>
> since there are many list pages that go the other way, and reversing 
> by hand is tedious, I've put up a perl script:
>
>    * http://wiki.beyondunreal.com/cgi-bin/reverser.cgi
>
> I'll link it to it from the manual of style when I get round to 
> updating it to mention lists.

After doing a few of the Academyh Awards by hand, I became familiar with 
the tedium.  Now I cut and paste to an Excel spreatsheet, resort there, 
and copy back to the article.

Eclecticology